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Might be driven by Software and Hardware Manfacturers

It may be an admission it is going to take a lot of time for applications to be ported to Vista. Additionally, the hardware requirements are much greater than XP and a lot of companies have Hardware rotation times greater than two years.

I would have to agree partially

that many businesses have 5+ year rotations on systems. Usually small to mid sized that are strapped on finances. But, by 09, I would guess that more than 80% of business systems will be of newer makes and probably mostly dual core. On the other hand, I purchased a system at home a few months back, and I like the idea that XP will still be supported even after this system is out of date. I think this move may mostly be targeting the general public who is often slower to upgrade their systems at home every 2-3 years.

This is good news

And I do not see charged extended support as a bad thing either. When you buy a car, there is a regular warranty, and additional warranty for a price. Same with other HW and appliances. It depends on the cost though, too steep and it is useless and will be avoided.

But I think that MS needs to get their patches tested better. It seems that soon before a new OS release they keep pushing patches that cause more problems than what they intended to fix. there is an occasional one like that every now and then, but before a new OS, it seems to be every other or every patch has issues.I went a bit off topic, sorry.

That's ok, I was trying to figure out what this meant to me

As a home user that just bought a brand new dual processor with xp media, I'm definitely not upgrading. Isn't happening, period.

The reason I wanted to find followup on Microsoft's web site was to see if service patch's would continue, but other support wouldn't unless paid for. I just didn't understand exactly what they was saying. I know, dumb. What can I say.

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